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Here is a question from an online scavenger hunt and I just can't figure it out :(
The question is as follows:
Libricide played the quintessential role in the naming of X. Name X.
Hints:
irony
Not the name of a person or an event
What do you think it is guys? | | Welcome back!!! | | VLAER !! | The answer is Libricide
If Libricide never happened, noone would name it Libricide. | | YES, I rock, see ? Piece of cake ! | | Trust Hallion for the perfect sarcastic answer xD | | You mean quintessential sarcastic* | Ah! I'm not back, not yet though :) Really just visiting back to check out how stuff is going on here :)
Well, the answer is not libricide...I'm stuck guys, really need this answer. I checked around on the internet and I found in some places that the name of the product amazon 'kindle' was a jest on book burning, or something like that, and well, it does seem to fit the hints: its an irony considering the fact that kindle provides us with books and it is neither the name of a person nor an event. But i have tried all answers like kindle, amazon kindle, etc. etc. and none of them work. So well, I am back to square one :( | Won't be kindle...
About three years ago, Cronan was asked by Lab126, an Amazon.com company, to name a consumer product line, which turned out to be the Kindle. Hibma says, “Michael came up with the name through our usual practice of exploring the depths of what the potential for the new product and product line could be and how the company wanted to present it. Jeff [Bezos, the CEO] wanted to talk about the future of reading, but in a small, not braggadocio way. We didn’t want it to be ‘techie’ or trite, and we wanted it to be memorable, and meaningful in many ways of expression, from ‘I love curling up with my Kindle to read a new book’ to ‘When I’m stuck in the airport or on line, I can Kindle my newspaper, favorite blogs or half a dozen books I’m reading.’”
Kindle means to set alight or start to burn, to arouse or be aroused, to make or become bright. The word’s roots are from the Old Norse word kyndill, meaning Candle. “I verified that it had deep roots in literature,” adds Hibma. “From Voltaire: ‘The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others and it becomes the property of all.’” No other name could hold a candle to Kindle.
Cronan also named TIVO (and designed the logo) and currently has an exhibition of his paintings, “Sibyls and Prophets from the Sistine Chapel,” at Vintage Berkeley, 2113 Vine St., Berkeley, California, until January 17. | | Libricide is a book by Rebecca Knuth... Maybe you can use this... | ^^Well, I read that too, but some 3 or 4 sites mentioned what I said, so that's why I wanted to go about with this.
^not a name of a person, so Rebecca Knuth won't work. | | The answer is Internet !! | | Try voltaire... It was the pen name of some writer so its not a person nor a thing and is quite ironical | | neither :( | Just got another hint for the question:
You might find X in a library.
wth is this thing!? Its eating my head... | | Are you paying anything to get these hints ? | | try "Fahrenheit 451". it's a book about burning books, which is ironic. and you might certainly find it in a library | | Fartatnight451times |
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